Hi, No more problem by now. Apparently, I got rid of *all* the symptoms I had with gdm by doing this:
apt-get --purge remove gdm (it said it didn't remove /etc/dm/) rm -rf /etc/dm/ (so that everything is removed) apt-get install gdm And now it works fine! :-) Cheers, Sylvain. On Wednesday 14 April 2004 11:02, you wrote: SV> Hello, SV> SV> I've got various problems with gdm since I upgraded my SID 2 days ago. SV> SV> Thanks to some of you I found out how to put Window Maker, Gnome, Xfce and KDE SV> back into the drop-down list of gdm, SV> SV> BUT gdm still doesn't work correctly SV> SV> (before finding about the new SomeWM.desktop files, I messed around for hours SV> trying to fix the problem myself... mea culpa). SV> SV> SV> - When I select any session (Window Maker, etc.), gdm complains about not SV> finding 'the base Xsession' script... though I have one in /etc/dm/Sessions/ SV> and in other directories as well. SV> SV> - Less disturbing: gdm also complains about 'XDMC' server not configured or SV> something. SV> SV> => Do you know where the 'base' Xsession script is supposed to be? SV> And maybe how to generate a default Xsession? SV> SV> Cheers, SV> Sylvain. SV> -- Config (for wx-users): - wx-2.4.2, - gcc 3.3.3, - GTK-2
